Indonesian folk horror has undergone a striking renaissance since 2019, with films such as Work Study in Dancer Village — the highest-grossing film in Indonesian history — drawing on Javanese village culture and spiritual practices. Andrea Decker argues that the genre's recurrent motif of the dangerous female dancer cannot be read as folklore alone: it is haunted by the New Order's fabricated imagery of communist women dancing while torturing army generals in 1965, propaganda that (…)

Indonesia's female ghost figures --- the vengeful kuntilanak, the shamed sundel bolong, the murdered suster ngesot --- all originate in stories of women killed through sexual violence, abandonment, or social rejection. Yet popular culture and horror film erase that history, replacing it with fear of the women themselves. The living system that produced their deaths goes unexamined; the women's rage is reframed as supernatural threat. Drawing on Barbara Creed's concept of the (…)

Haim Hanegbi Bajayo (1935–2018) co-founded Matzpen (the Israeli Socialist Organisation) in 1962 and remained, for more than half a century, the most visible voice of anti-Zionist left politics inside Israel. A Sephardic Jew from the old Hebron community, he understood the Palestinian cause not as solidarity from the outside but as a claim rooted in his own history: settlers had occupied his family's homes in Hebron just as they had occupied Palestinian homes. Ahmad Jaradat recalls the man (…)

Ahmad Jaradat (1961–2026) était un militant palestinien et coordinateur de projet au Centre d'information alternative (Alternative Information Centre, AIC), une organisation palestino-israélienne fondée en 1984 pour promouvoir la solidarité militante et le plaidoyer politique de part et d'autre de la ligne d'occupation. Originaire du village de Sa'ir, dans le district d'Hébron en Cisjordanie occupée, il a travaillé pour l'AIC pendant plus de deux décennies --- documentant les ordres de (…)

Ahmad Jaradat (1961–2026) was a Palestinian activist and Senior Project Coordinator of the Alternative Information Centre (AIC), a joint Palestinian-Israeli organisation founded in 1984 to advance grassroots solidarity and political advocacy across the line of occupation. From his home village of Sa'ir, in the Hebron district of the occupied West Bank, he worked for the AIC for more than two decades --- documenting Israeli demolition orders in the South Hebron Hills and the Jordan Valley, (…)